Under-performing' Weis Markets in Pottstown closing Nov. 9

POTTSTOWN — Weis Markets announced Friday it will close its Pottstown supermarket and pharmacy over the next two weeks.

A total of 35 full and part-time employees will be affected by the closure.

According to a press release issued by the company late Friday afternoon, the pharmacy will close Oct. 31 and the store will close Nov. 9.

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“Our store is closing due to continuing under-performance,” said Dennis Curtin, Weis Markets’ director of public relations.

Asked for more specific information about why the store is closing, Curtin would only say that the performance issue had been “long-term.”

Curtin said the store’s employees were told about the store’s closing during a meeting Thursday. And while no details are known at this point, efforts are underway to transfer employees to other stores, Curtin said.

“We’re talking to them about working in other nearby stores. At this point we’re working through the details,” Curtin said. “We informed them in the meeting and now we’re sorting through the details.

Another unanswered question at this point centers around what steps customers will need to take to get their prescriptions transferred to other pharmacies. “We don’t have any information on that, yet,” Curtin added.

The 45,228-square-foot store, located in the Pottstown Center Shopping Center, 223 Shoemaker Road, opened in 1995. It is one of only two Weis Markets within a 10-mile radius of Pottstown and one of 16 stores within 25 miles of the borough.

A call to the store manager for comment was referred to the corporate office.

Founded in 1912, Weis Markets Inc. is based in Sunbury and operates 165 stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and West Virginia.

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